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Job Details
Salary: Competitive per annum
Hours: 37.5 per week, Monday to Friday
Location: Hybrid, 3 days a week in our VHQ, Crawley
Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: 6th June 2025
In a nutshell
At Virgin Atlantic Airways, we believe that everyone can take on the world, and it’s our vision to become the most loved travel company. As we embark on this next exciting stage of our journey, we’re harnessing our spirit of entrepreneurship and innovation to challenge the status quo.
Join our team of forward-thinkers who approach the world with a different lens. We value individuals who are vocal about driving positive change and are willing to dive into both big and small tasks. If you’re ready to take your career to new heights, this opportunity is for you.
This role is accountable for delivering first-class enterprise risk management across the organisation. You will be responsible for developing, structuring, resourcing, and delivering a vision for risk, and a risk operating model, which improves the airline’s Enterprise Risk capability at all levels. Reporting to the Head of Internal Audit, you will ensure the effective management of risk organisation-wide and reduce material financial loss.
Day to day
* Develop and embed the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Framework, ensuring it aligns with Virgin Atlantic’s strategic aims and regulatory requirements.
* Lead the facilitation of the company’s risk management process, supporting the development and enhancement of controls, and identifying opportunities for process and control improvements.
* Work closely with the business to develop and implement a risk road map, maintain and coordinate risk registers, heat maps, and action plans.
* Drive awareness of good enterprise risk governance across the airline, building and maintaining strong and collaborative working relationships.
* Develop, implement, and roll out consolidated, insightful, and actionable risk reporting across the entire business.
* Engage in activities to mature risk management, including the development of sub-risks and controls, and the implementation and ongoing management of risk tools.
* Provide guidance, training, and support to risk owners in each directorate on managing risk and compliance with the group's enterprise risk management requirements.
* Facilitate regular consideration of risk policies and risk appetite with the Main Board and Audit Committee.
About You
* Excellent working knowledge of Risk Management frameworks and evidence of designing, implementing, and embedding Enterprise Risk Management frameworks in complex organisations.
* Proven experience in effective collaboration and influencing senior internal and external stakeholders, including director level.
* Strong people management and leadership skills, with a focus on leading by example, coaching, and development.
* A positive and pragmatic results-oriented mindset focused on improving business results through effective risk management and mitigation.
* Project management experience demonstrating planning and organisational skills required to manage multiple streams of work simultaneously.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
* Recognised risk management qualification such as CRMP or CRISC (desirable) or demonstrable equivalent experience.
* Qualified accountant or Risk Management specialist with relevant experience, ideally gained in professional practice or in a large multinational corporate.
* Exposure to the aviation sector or related industry (desirable).
* Prior experience identifying, building cases for investment, and technical implementation of new risk management technologies.
* Prior supplier relationship management experience.
Our recipe for leadership
At Virgin Atlantic, our leaders empower teams to thrive through collaboration, innovation, and excellence. Explore our Leadership Recipe and discover the 20 core ingredients that define what it means to lead with us, driving our mission to be the most loved travel company and achieve sustainable profit. Want to learn more? Click here
Be yourself
Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our colleagues. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. At Virgin Atlantic, we believe everyone can take on the world - no matter your age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs. We celebrate difference and everything that makes our colleagues unique by upholding an inclusive environment in which we can all thrive. So that everyone at Virgin Atlantic can be themselves and know they belong.
To make your journey with us accessible and individual to you, we encourage you to let us know if you’d like a little extra help with your application, or if you have any individual requirements at any stage along your recruitment journey. We are here to support you, so please reach out to our team, (recruitment@fly.virgin.com) feeling confident that we’ve got your individual considerations covered.
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